Word: diagramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Micrometer Precision. About as big as its owner's fist, the human kidney is a biochemical filter with incredibly delicate powers of discrimination. It is also a prodigious worker (see diagram, left). All the water that anyone consumes in food or drink must go into the blood and be extracted by the kidneys before it can be voided as urine-contrary to the beer drinker's cliche "It goes right through you." Kidneys also work fast: the malodorous sulphur compound in asparagus is extracted and begins to be excreted in a couple of hours...
...Chicago doctors have stopped bleeding from aneurysms (ballooned-out arteries) in the brain's arterial roundabout, the Circle of Willis, by drilling a hole in the patient's skull under a local anesthetic and inserting a stainless steel needle (see diagram). This has a hairlike electrode tip only 1/250 in. in diameter, which is positioned precisely by a double-grid system of X rays (see photos). The tip is the positive electrode for a minute current. The negative electrode is attached outside the skull. Within half an hour the iron in the electrode is "plated off" (in effect...
William Golding's latest novel is more a diagram than a story. He bases the book on a tension between the spiritual (the spire) and the worldly and instinctual (the foundations...
...NEPAL-Asia House, 112 East 64th. The first major exhibition of Nepalese art spans 14 centuries. Limestone sculptures of classical simplicity, gilded idols adorned with precious stones, elaborate cloth paintings of mandalas, the Buddhist diagram for spiritual reintegration. Through...
...explained that the operator first selects an area for "reading out" by pushing one of a set of buttons marked with letters of the alphabet. He pushed "J" to demonstrate, and after a brief flashing of lights and grinding of gears, a diagram in glowing green lines appeared on a screen set in the control panel. "The board is now projecting a slide of water and steam pipes in area J," said Mr. McFarlane, "which happens to be the Indoor Athletic Building. Now within this area, we can take a number of readings"--he referred here to a book that...